Yeah, I still use it too, almost weekly.
Yeah, I still use it too, almost weekly.
I don’t think so. He just said that he had evaluated it and it wasn’t a good fit for the application. I remembered it was in our Popular Feature Requests thread, and I looked back and (crazy enough) it’s still there.
It’s wild that they actually responded to the pedantry comment with the exact pedantry I was trying to pre-empt.
Sometimes, with caveats (I researched this a while back). tl;dr: probably yes, if you get puzzles manufactured by the same company around the same time.
There are “puzzle companies” that are actually just design studios who farm out the manufacturing process to a puzzle printer. Depending on the printer, they’re very likely to reuse puzzle dies even between design companies; so you might even be able to remix two puzzles by different companies, if they use the same print company.
Certain high volume printers rebuild their puzzle dies from scratch every so often (so the design would be entirely different depending on which print run you’re working with). Ravensburger in particular had a thing on their website (it might still be there) about how they can’t get you individual replacement pieces because they’ve almost certainly already rebuilt the die since your copy was printed. And most companies end up just replacing the entire puzzle if they leave out a piece.
Some puzzle companies make puzzles where the design and the cut are related somehow (Magic Puzzle Company built a whole line on those). Those are unlikely to be reused between designs, though you do end up paying extra for them.
Even if you get a pair of puzzles that were cut using the same die, they might not line up the way this image shows. If the die was removed and flipped around between one puzzle’s cutting and another, the cut would be “upside down” on the other and they would fit together in a very different way.
Yes, hence the disclaimer. Grumman delivered the Lunar Module in 1968, Grumman delivered the LLV in 1986, Northrup delivered the B-2 Spirit in 1987, and the companies combined in 1994.
Just to head off any pedantry: I know this isn’t how it went, but it’s funnier this way.
US Government Employee: “Okay, awesome. So that’s a solid contract for the Lunar Lander for NASA. Great doing business with you.”
Northrop Grumman salesman: “Yeah, sure, happy to help us win the space race against the Soviets!”
Gov Employee: “Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go figure out who we’re going to get to build a stealth bomber for the Air Force.”
Grumman: “Oh, we can do that too!”
Gov Employee: “Whoa, really? Thanks, that really makes the rest of the week easier. I appreciate it! Now all I need to do is find someone to make some cute little mail delivery trucks for the USPS.”
Grumman: “You’re not gonna believe this…”
if you haven’t talked about that kind of thing already, clearly you’re doing something wrong.
Yep. There are some cases where you should know the answer before you ask the question. Proposals are one of those cases.
my wife asked
Whoa, you were really slow on the uptake.
I don’t doubt that someone might be thinking that, but I do doubt that any lawyer thinks it’s necessary. As far as I know nobody has ever brought suit against a TV show for a suicide case.
But I’m not an attorney.
I’m a simple man. You go into ad hominem territory, I leave the conversation. See ya.
How would you have written this comic to get the idea across, then?
I realize that. The person above seemed to think that everything in this clearly allegorical comic is somehow intended to be taken literally.
I mean, they can rein them in or not. I really don’t care either way, because I’m going to leave most of them off anyway. I turn off the obvious ads, of course, but almost everything else too. Basically, unless it’s something that I can take direct action on or someone I know who is intentionally trying to contact me, it doesn’t get a notification.
No. What is actually happening in the comic is that a character is having a discussion with another person (not a racist conversation, because sea lions are not sentient beings despite what is about to happen). Treating it as anything more than that is reading something into the story not intended by the original comic. Not everything is so literal, particularly with Malki comics.
Not gonna cry over what the victims of racism do to racists.
Eh…I dunno. I’m not going to tone police anyone, and consequences for bad actions are definitely good, but do two very-wrongs make a kinda-right? I’m not sold.
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Look…if you don’t vibe with the comic, that’s fine. It’s just obviously not about all the stuff that you seem to think it’s about.
Yes, I think you’re correct, but using browsers to coerce the web back into static documents will result in companies creating their own apps so that they can continue to deliver experiences. And the past 10+ years has shown that users will absolutely follow them.
Dang, that comic will be ten years old next week.
Yeah, I’ve been trying to make a switch over to Linux for a lot of reasons, but honestly Paint.NET is the one thing that keeps me tethered to Windows that I’m not super grumpy about (Adobe also keeps me tethered to Windows, but that makes me angry every time I think about it).
If *Nix has a decent image editor with layers that isn’t super over-engineered like GIMP is, I haven’t heard of it yet. Maybe that’s all become web-based.